Sturgeon Brexit indyref claims challenged
by Colin Fox, RISE lead candidate for the Lothians “A second referendum on independence will almost certainly be demanded if the UK votes to leave the EU against ...
New mobilisation tactics for an alternative Europe
by Sophia Lycouris, RISE Lothians list candidate As mentioned in a previous Voice, the Transnational Social Strike Platform is a group of European organisations and ...
Roosh V protests galvanise anti-rape culture campaigners
by Jenni Gunn, lead RISE candidate Mid Scotland & Fife The demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh against rape-advocate Roosh V were about so much more than one ...
Left needs womens’ voices at every level
by Suki Sangha, RISE Glasgow candidate We’re trying to do things a little differently in RISE. We’re addressing issues which, far too often, have been deemed ...
Fracking fight at heart of campaign to break with fossil fuels
by Kevin McVey, lead RISE candidate, Central Scotland Across the globe on 31 January, people took to the streets to demonstrate their opposition to fracking. Action took ...
Concern grows over North East oil transfer risks
by Roz Paterson In recent years, the North East coast has become as well-known for its Bottlenose dolphins as for its fishing industry, attracting tens of thousands of ...
Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens
by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says ...
2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges
by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with ...
With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left
by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its ...
RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016
by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in ...
